Diego Magnani

Current

• Owner/General Manager at Omnia Publishing
• Editor-in-Chief at Hi-Tech Italy
• Editor-in-Chief at Windows Mobile Italy

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Past

• Press, Corporate Communication and Corporate Image Officer at Salaria Sport Village
• Editor-in-Chief at PocketPC Italia
• Freelance Journalist at Sprea Editori

• Editorial Consultant for Il Mio Palmare at Play Press Publishing
• Blog Editor at Blogo.it
• Editor-in-Chief of Il Mio Palmare at Play Press Publishing
• Editor at Play Press Publishing
• Owner/General Manager at DEweb – Internet Publishing
• Freelance Journalist at Play Press Publishing
• IT Consultant at Telecom Italia Mobile
• Freelance Journalist at Clementi Editore
• Editor-in-Chief at Travelling Interline International
• Freelance Journalist at Travelling Interline International

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Diego Magnani’s Summary

Professional journalist with communications and PR experience, currently dedicated to managing a network of online media web sites.
In the last 5 years I have been chiefly writing about Mobile Devices and Mobility (eg. PDA and smartphones), while focusing since 2006 on the Windows Mobile platform, developed by Microsoft.
Awarded Microsoft MVP - Windows Mobile [Mobile Devices] in 2009.
Previously I have been active in the areas of Television, Tourism, Music, Arts and Culture.
Interested in linking to other professional with similar interests and to companies operating in the same areas in order to share knowledge, experience and co-operation opportunities.

Diego Magnani’s Specialties:

Communications, PR, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, Smartphones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), Handheld computing, PDA-Phones, GPS, Mobility, Hi-Tech, Telco, IT, UNIX, ASP Programming, Tourism, Culture, Music, Television, Blogging

Diego Magnani’s Experience

• Owner/General Manager

  Omnia Publishing

  (Online Media industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Owner and General Manager of Omnia Publishing, an online media editing company specialized in publishing professional information websites about "lifestyle and technology" such as New Media Italy and its network: Windows Mobile Italy, Hi-Tech Italy and Mamme Domani.

• Editor-in-Chief

  Hi-Tech Italy

  (Online Media industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Editor-in-Chief of Hi-Tech Italy, an Italian web portal dedicated to all flavors of high technology. Responsible of editorial contents, commercial matters and Public Relations.

• Editor-in-Chief

  Windows Mobile Italy

  (Online Media industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Editor-in-Chief of Windows Mobile Italy, an Italian web portal dedicated to the Microsoft mobile platform Windows Mobile. Responsible of editorial contents, commercial matters and Public Relations.

• Press, Corporate Communication and Corporate Image Officer

  Salaria Sport Village

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  March 2008 — October 2008 (8 months)

  In charge of writing press releases and news articles for sport magazines and for the house organ, monitoring the media, arranging public events, managing corporate communication and advertising, advertise events and promotions, formatting the house organ.

• Editor-in-Chief

  PocketPC Italia

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

  October 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Responsible of all editorial contents published on the web portal PocketPCItalia.com, the Italian online resource devoted to the Windows Mobile world. Other than writing daily news I have also been in charge of writing reviews and special feature articles, as well as handling commercial duties such as selling advertising spaces on the web portal.

• Freelance Journalist

  Sprea Editori

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  May 2007 — December 2007 (8 months)

  Freelance Journalist for the mobile computing magazine “portatile&wireless”, writing original articles and tutorials about Palm and Windows Mobile devices.

• Editorial Consultant for Il Mio Palmare

  Play Press Publishing

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  October 2006 — March 2007 (6 months)

  Responsible of the featured content which appears on the pages of "Il Mio Palmare", the only Italian PDA/Smartphone-related paper-printed magazine, writing original articles, reviewing mobile devices, translating material from English to Italian, and writing tutorials.

• Blog Editor

  Blogo.it

  (Online Media industry)

  January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Blog editor of TVblog (www.tvblog.it), the television-focused weblog, and of Mobileblog (www.mobileblog.it), the mobility-related weblog, which are part of the italian nanopublishing network Blogo.it.

• Editor-in-Chief of Il Mio Palmare

  Play Press Publishing

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  May 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 5 months)

  Main editor of the magazine "Il Mio Palmare", the only Italian PDA/Smartphone-related paper-printed magazine.
  Responsible of the featured content which appeared on the pages of Il Mio Palmare and also accomplishing some PR duties every now and then.

• Editor

  Play Press Publishing

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  March 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 7 months)

  I have been writing original articles, translating material from English to Italian, writing tutorials and making video-courses for the computer magazines “Guida Software”, “PC Home”, “Windows Facile”, “Internet Facile", “PC Software”, “Webdesigner Magazine”, “Pagine Web Facile”, “Progetti Pratici”, “Digital Internet”, “Fotografia Digitale Facile”, “Videodigitale Facile”, “Videodigitale Magazine", “iCreate”, “Guide Digitali”, "Digital Creativity Magazine", "Computer Home", "Total Computer", "Chip" and, of course, "Il Mio Palmare".

• Owner/General Manager

  DEweb – Internet Publishing

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1998 — December 2003 (5 years 8 months)

  Owner of DEweb – Internet Publishing, an agency providing IT and Web services:
  
  - IT Consultant, Web Developer and programmer
  
  - Provider of Mailing List and E-mail marketing services on behalf of many private companies
  
  - Author of Advertising campaigns and advertisement banners

• Freelance Journalist

  Play Press Publishing

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  January 2003 — March 2003 (3 months)

  Freelance Journalist for the computer magazines “PC Home”, “Internet Facile" and “Pagine Web Facile”, translating articles from English to Italian and writing tutorials.

• IT Consultant

  Telecom Italia Mobile

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2002 — March 2003 (1 year 3 months)

  UNIX Systems Analyst within TIM - Telecom Italia Mobile, sector SI/ES-C (Servizi Informatici Esercizio Collaudo), in charge of testing the VAS (Value Added Services) systems “i-Poll/Sondaggi” (SMS-driven polling and voting system) and “ScripTIM” (SMS and MMS-based news and multimedia content delivery system), both developed in Java, and based on Oracle databases, on a BEA Weblogic webserver and on SMS and WAP Gateways (SUN Enterprise 4500, 10000 e 15000 clusters technical environment)

• Freelance Journalist

  Clementi Editore

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  November 2002 — January 2003 (3 months)

  Freelance Journalist and Photoreporter for the magazines “Viaggia L’Italia” (travel and food) e per “La Rivista del Trekking” (trekking)

• Editor-in-Chief

  Travelling Interline International

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  October 1996 — January 2002 (5 years 4 months)

  Editor-in-Chief and Responsible of the Editing Office for the magazine Travelling Interline International (tourism and culture).
  While co-ordinating 25 freelance journalist in 11 Italian regions, I was also in charge of writing travel reports in Italy and abroad.
  During the years 1998 and 1999 I have been working as a journalist abroad, specifically in the United States of America (New England).

• Freelance Journalist

  Travelling Interline International

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  March 1993 — October 1996 (3 years 8 months)

  Freelance Journalist and Photoreporter for the magazine Travelling Interline International (tourism and culture).
  During that time I have been writing articles of all genres, columns about Music, the Internet, Humour (in English language), Books and Art.
  I have also been travelling in Italy and abroad writing travel reports.

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